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The Learning Lab

The Learning Lab is designed to inform and invigorate your working practice – through workshops, round table discussions – and a couple of opportunities to listen to top class musicians. Up to four different sessions will run simultaneously at any time. Very few sessions are repeated so it really is worth your while attending the two days of State of Play.

Disclaimer: Schedule may be subject to change.

Learning Lab sessions in more detail:

• Arts Awards
  Find out how these national awards work and how you can support young people to prepare for them. Workshop led by Alice Young, Arts Awards Manager, Trinity Guild Hall. For anyone working with young people who would benefit from this portfolio approach to learning and gaining a qualification. Musical skill level required - from beginners to experienced.
  
• Play To Your Strengths
  A workshop not about ‘picking up tips and tricks’ but about developing your professional practice to reflect the person you are and what you do well. Sing, play, write music – and rise to the challenge of creating your own way of doing things. Use this workshop to reflect on and refresh your practice. Workshop participants will be able to buy Community Music – the acclaimed handbook edited by Peter Moser and George McKay – for £15 (rather than the retail price of £25).
  Workshop led by Peter Moser, director of More Music in Morecambe. For anyone delivering music education – in and out of schools. Musical skill level required - from beginners to experienced. You are welcome to bring your own instrument.
  
• Music to the Ear
  A practical workshop on music making with young deaf people, and how some of these techniques would be useful to hearing children too. Workshop led by Paul Whittaker, Director of Music and the Deaf. For anyone delivering music education – in and out of schools. Musical skill level required - from beginners to experienced.
  
• Celebrating Wider Opportunities and Looking to the Future
   - access and inclusion, creativity, integration, collaboration.

Participants will have the opportunity to observe and engage with a live
demonstration of Key Stage 2 instrumental work involving Year 4 Pelican
Class and their teachers from Coldfall Primary School (in the London Borough
of Haringey).

Within the context of the national continuous professional development
programme for Music Practice at Key Stage 2 which is about to begin, we will
be looking at the underlying principles which have made Wider Opportunities
so successful, and at how these can inform our vision for the future.

Suitable for anyone with an interest in music at Key Stage 2 (7 to 11 year
olds). You don't need any particular instrumental or vocal skills to take
part.

Workshop led by Nick Beach, Deputy Director of Music and Performing Arts,
Trinity Guildhall; Leonora Davies, Chair of the Music Education Council and
Julie Spencer, Deputy Head of Service, Haringey Music & Performing Arts
Centre

• Musical Futures: Personalising Music Learning – the Nottingham Whole Curriculum Approach
  Experience a 6-week Key Stage 3 project in 45 minutes! The Image Junction Project is 1 of 6 which make up The Whole Curriculum Approach, Musical Futures Year 8 Curriculum, created in a partnership between Nottingham students, Heads of Music and Musical Futures. This tutor-led process has strong links to the Wider Opportunities large-group tuition experiences, and integrates composition, music technology and string playing. Participants will create and perform a soundtrack for an animated film, through means of a 'here's-one-I-made earlier' approach! All workshop participants will receive a Musical Futures 'Personalising Music Learning Resource Pack' to take away. For anyone delivering music education to young people – in and out of schools. Musical skill level required - from beginners to experienced.
  
• Musical Futures: Personalising Music – The Hertfordshire Informal Learning Model
  Participants will replicate the young person's experience of Informal Learning through the first stage of a year-long programme. Titled 'In At The Deep End', this process turns teacher into coach, and young people into independent learners. Participants will learn about the 5 principles of informal learning, distilled from the learning strategies of self-taught pop musicians. This is not a theoretical workshop, you'll get hands-on experience of being in a band, and a Musical Futures 'Personalising Music Learning Resource Pack' to take away. For anyone delivering music education to young people – in and out of schools. Musical skill level required - from beginners to experienced.
  
• Music in Families
  If you have musical parents, do you follow their influence, rebel against it – or a bit of both? Some musical families talk about their experience (and may play their instruments) Eliza Carthy with Martin Carthy and Norma Waterston, Soweto and Don Kinch, John and Dan Harle. For everyone.
  
• Access to Excellence – The Sage Gateshead’s Pathfinder Vocal Remedies
  Practice and reflection from new work developed across the North East. For anyone who wants schools to sing. No previous experience of singing required.
  
• Access to Excellence – The Sage Gateshead’s Pathfinder Early Years
  Practice and reflection from new work developed across the North East. For anyone who wants to put music into Early Years education, including directors of Children’s Services, managers, early years teachers and music leaders.
  
• BBC Concert Orchestra MusicLab - the Dr Who film project
  Two workshops giving delegates the opportunity to participate in some of the BBC Music Lab activities.
  
• Making Music Accessible
  A practical workshop for music leaders working with young people with physical impairment in mixed ability settings.
  
• The Abram Wilson Interviews
  New Orleans trumpeter Abram Wilson makes conversation and music with prominent British musicians with very different musical pathways – including Seth Lakeman, and Gwilym Simcock. For everyone.
  
• The Singing School
  Learn about Manchester Music Service’s initiative to develop singing in every primary classroom in the city and learn the songs they are using from some of the children. Workshop led by Sue Berry and Maurice Walsh of Manchester Music Service. For anyone who wants schools to sing. No previous experience of singing required.
  
• Hubs – what, why, how and who?
  One of the key recommendations of the Music Manifesto, hubs are the ultimate in ‘joined-up’ practice. What makes up a hub? Why are they being proposed as one of the best ways to deliver music education? How do you go about getting one together and who should take the lead? Listen to some responses from a panel of speakers – and air your views and questions about hubs. Round table discussion with Kathryn Dean, Colin Brackley Jones and Pete Moser. For anyone who thinks hubs are a good idea and anyone who thinks hubs are a bad idea.
  
• Hubs – developing them in different ways in different areas
  In the North and South West, two very different models of hubs are emerging: The North West Pathfinder of the Music Manifesto (comprising GMMAZ, the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester Music Service and Salford Music Service) and JUMPS in Somerset. Listen to representatives from the two models talk about their progress to date, and their plans and hopes for the future. Join in the round table discussion with your own comments and questions. For anyone interested in developing or joining a hub.
  
• Influencing Change – where the organisational leader comes in
  Implementing the Music Manifesto is up to all of us. How do you lead your team – a school, a local authority department or directorate, your YMAZ or arts organisation, in a constantly uncertain environment, to make this difference?
  
• Influencing Change – where the peripatetic music teacher comes in
  Implementing the Music Manifesto is up to all of us. As a community musician what can you do for the Music Manifesto and what does it mean for you?
  
• Putting Young People at the Centre of Planning and Delivery
  Round table disscussion.
  
• ‘Challenging, vigorous and inspiring’ – the National Strategy at Key Stage 3
  Find out more about the Government’s recently-launched music programme within the Secondary National Strategy which aims to transform the achievements of 11 to 14 year-olds by making education challenging, vigorous and inspiring across the curriculum. This session will explore approaches to planned learning at KS3, teaching strategies to engage musical thinking and the importance of networking in CPD for teachers. It will involve both group work and group talk, and will lead participants to understand key principles behind the programme's materials. Led by Kevin Rogers, County Inspector, Hampshire Music Service and lead Adviser for the Strategy on the KS3 music programme. For anyone with experience of or views on the Strategy and how best to keep 11 to 14 year-olds engaged in musical learning.
  

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